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A newly-opened US$30-million facility has made Detroit Zoo more palatial, but it's not for visitors – it's for the zoo's penguins. The Polk Penguin Conservation Center is designed to be an optimal habitat for penguin welfare, with a controlled climate, activity features and a huge new pool.

The Smartress is a mattress with an inbuilt "lover detection system" that uses an array of sensors to measure the duration and intensity of any, er, activity undertaken on it, and notifies your phone if anything suspicious is going on.

Developed to cut the costs of maintaining underwater equipment, the Eelume robot is designed to be unleashed on seabeds where it will glide through tight spaces tending to gear that is out of reach for us humans.

LaCie's latest hard drive, the 12big Thunderbolt 3, is designed to make life easier for professionals by offering blazingly fast transfer speeds and up to 96TB of storage.

Young Driver Motor Cars Limited recently completed production of a two-seater car designed specifically for kids from five to ten years old, and they’re looking for test drivers to give it a go.

You’ve likely heard that a recent investigation into Shakespeare’s tomb revealed that the bard’s skull has likely been removed from his grave. What you may not know, however, is exactly how that was determined. We caught up with one of the researchers to find out.

Not many startups have rocketed to fame like Slack. And with explosive growth comes the millions of dollars, and apparently, swanky new offices inside old breweries. Gizmag was on hand as Slack cut the ribbon at its new Melbourne headquarters to have a little poke around.

As the laptop turns 35, we look at the past, present and future of portable computing with Dr. Alan Kay, the industry pioneer who first envisioned the concept of a portable computer, and Lee Felsenstein, designer of the world's first commercially successful laptop.

When you live in a small apartment, making the most of the space you have is key to being comfortable. Conscious of this, designer Roberto Gil has created a line of space-saving units that combine beds with a variety of other furniture types.

A Californian team thinks it has the solution to suitcases being bounced around as you wheel through the airport with Floatti, a smart suitcase with suspension, smartphone integration and an inbuilt scale.

​Using data collected by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, a team of astronomers have produced the first ever heat map of an Earth-like exoplanet. The alien climate map paints a grim picture of a world scorched by its close proximity to its host star.

Just in case ET turns out to be not so friendly, a pair of Columbia University scientists have figured out how to use lasers to hide the Earth from prying eyes by camouflaging its light signature.​